List 7 Flashcards
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Aboveboard
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Honest
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Abate
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To decrease in force
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Accolade
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Award; praise
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Acrid
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Bitter, as in taste or smell
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Admonish
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To warn; to criticize
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Affected
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Artificial, as in behavior; theatrical
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Alacrity
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Eagerness; cheerful promptness
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Alleviate
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To lessen; to diminish
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Amalgam
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Mixture
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Anachronistic
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Out of place in time
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Animosity
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Hatred; hostility
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Anomalous
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Unusual; out of place
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Anthology
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Collection of stories or poems
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Aphorism
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A short, wise saying
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Apprentice
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1 a worker who is in training
2 an unskilled worker
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Archaic
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Ancient
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Arsenal
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Collection of weapons
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Aspirant
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A hopeful person
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Astute
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smart
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Augment
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To add to
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Autonomy
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Freedom; independence
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Awry
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Wrong; out of place; off the right course
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Banal
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Ordinary; boring
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Baseness
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1 inferiority; low rank
2 crudeness
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Befuddle
To confuse
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Belligerent
Argumentative; aggressive
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Beret
Round, flat cap
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Bigot
Prejudiced person
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Blatant
Obvious; attention-grabbing
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Bombastic
Loud and self-involved; pompous
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Brevity
Briefness
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Buffeted
Hit repeatedly
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Bustle
To hurry
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Cajole
To urge through flattery
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Calving
1. Giving birth to a calf
| 2. Losing part of oneself
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Cataclysmic
Terrible; tragic
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Caucus
Meeting
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Cavort
To run around in a playful manner
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Certitude
Sureness; certainty
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Chary
Careful; wary
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Chide
To scold; to disapprove of
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Circumlocution
A roundabout way of speaking
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Citrus
A type of fruit; oranges, lemons
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Coagulate
To clot; to come together
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Coffer
Box in which valuables are kept
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Cohesive
1. Holding together
| 2. Logical
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Colossal
Huge
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Commiserate
To feel or show pity for ; to sympathize
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Compost
Fertilizer
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condone
to pardon; to overlook
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conflagration
large fire
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congregate
to come together in a crowd
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conspircuous
obvious; attracting attention
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contiguous
side by side; touching
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conviction
strong belief
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corroborate
to provide evidence to support a view or opinoin
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countermand
command replacing a previous one
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crusader
one who fights for a cause
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curator
director of an institute
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daunt
to threathen
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debilitate
to weaken; to cripple
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decoy
trick; lure; bait
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deference
extreme respectfulness; submissiveness
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degradation
dishonor
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denounce
to criticize; to attack in speech or writing
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deride
to ridicule
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despondent
depressed
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detest
to hate
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dialectic
method of finding truth through reasoning
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diffidence
shyness; lack of confidence
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dilation
process of becoming wider
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disapprobation
disapproval
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discern
1. to recognize
| 2. to distinguish between things
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disinterested
neutral; objective
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disposition
mood; temperament
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dissolution
the breaking into parts or pieces
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ditty
simple song
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dogged
persistent; stubbornly determined
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dotard
stupid person
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drawl
to speak slowly
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dulcet
pleasant-sounding
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eclectic
from many sources; diverse
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efface
to erase; to destroy
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effusion
act of freely expressing feeling or thought
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elocution
art of speaking well, especially in public
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emancipated
freed
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embroil
to get involved in an argument; to entangle
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enamored
in love with
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engender
to produce
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entomology
study of insects
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envenom
to make bitter; to poison
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equestrian
related to horseback riding
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esoteric
understood only by a few people; mystical
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eulogize
to say great things about
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exacting
demanding; severe
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exhort
to urge strongly
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expedite
to speed up the process; to make more efficient
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extol
to praise
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exude
to give off
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facetiousness
inappropriate humor; wit
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fastidious
fussy; finicky; difficult to please
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felicity
happiness
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feudal
relating to a lord-and-tenant system of land division
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fission
act of splitting something into parts
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floe
chunk of floating ice
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foible
minor flaw or weakness
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fortify
to make stronger
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frisky
playful
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furtive
secretive; sneaky
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gale
a strong wind
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game
wild animals
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garish
gaudy; bright in color
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genesis
beginning; origin
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germane
relevant; important
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gingerly
cautiously; carefully
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glib
slick (as in speech); superficial
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grapple
to struggle with
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guffaw
to laugh heartily
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hackneyed
cliched; overused; trite
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heed
to follow
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hidebound
very stubborn
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idiosyncrasy
strange habit or preference
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impecunious
having no money
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implore
to beg
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impugn
to call into question; to challenge the truth of a statement
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incendiary
1. causing fire
| 2. stirring up trouble
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incite
to provoke
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incorrigible
unable to be improved; beyond hope of correction
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indefatigable
tireless; energetic
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indoctrination
the teaching of a certain point of view; brain-washing
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ineptness
clumsiness; lack of ability
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infirmity
weakness; disease
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ingrained
firmly established
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innate
present since birth; inborn; inherited
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insinuation
subtle, usually negative suggestion
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intercede
to break up an argument and settle differences
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intrepid
brave; fearless
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investiture
process of investing, as with a rank. office or title
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iridescent
colorful and shiny; brilliant
